• Question: WHAT DO YOU THINK A SCIENTIST IS LITERALLY? IS IT BASICALLY SOMEONE WHO DOES SCIENCE FOR A LIVING? I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.

    Asked by idilamin to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Mark Roberts

      Mark Roberts answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Hmmm quite philosophical

      So yes it could be taken literately as someone who does ‘science’ working in a lab or such

      or you could think about it more abstractly as someone who thinks about things scientifically or more specifically uses the scientific method.

      That is forming a hypothesis, then experiment then new hypothesis and so on

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      Lily Asquith answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Yes. I think you can be a scientist even if you don’t do science as your job.

      Cooking the perfect boiled egg is science. So is making a paper aeroplane, growing a sunflower, changing a fuse in a plug, kicking a football.

      Anything that involves an aim and a method which uses information about the way the world works is science. So you are a scientist.

    • Photo: Laura Maliszewski

      Laura Maliszewski answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Yep. I think the definition of scientist can be pretty broad, including anyone who explores a problem in a systematic, logical way.

    • Photo: Sarah Bardsley

      Sarah Bardsley answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      A scientist is someone who has an advanced knowledge of a science discipline and likes to approach things in a logical and questioning way. They like to understand things. Often they work in universities and conduct pure research. Other times they look at the application of science. Some may not be employed in science but still approach things in a scientific way.

      Hope that helps!

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